The PlayStation 6 Bill of Materials is now rumored to be ~$1,000 USD
Leaker KeplerL2 estimated the BoM at $760 a few months ago, but claims the price has increased due to higher industry costs
The Bill of Materials is the total cost of all the parts needed to build one console
Console hardware sales in May in the US hit all time lows
PlayStation hardware was lowest in 25 years, while Xbox unit sales were the lowest ever recorded in history
BREAKING: California voters will decide in November whether to tax the state’s billionaires, after Governor Gavin Newsom and some of the world’s wealthiest people failed to stop the proposal from reaching the ballot, per Bloomberg
JUST IN: A bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour has been introduced in the Senate.
The federal minimum wage is still $7.25. It hasn’t changed since 2009.
For years, the debate was $15/hour. Now it's $25/hour. Shows you how much the cost of living has changed.
@MrAngry65CM@candrewsdds@jonbrooks Houses start at 400,000 for a basic starter home, please tell me how that’s affordable. Not everyone in the USA has a luxury of buying a house for 100,000/150,000 in Ohio.
Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.
These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.